Salt Lake Tribune | 1996-11-10 | Page 2

SUNDAY PERSPECTIVE Sunday, November 10, 1996 The Salt Lake Tribune esaissedsle) ese eaee) a {this years Veter the result of a n for how her late fa nis Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II ski¢ It is @ story Falls when J contacted him 1 had long known O'Brien. He was 18 when, in 1944, he donned the uni form of the Army Air Corps. In 1990, he was residing 150 miles southeast of of courage and fear his co-pilot in Salt Lake City, Jevil-may-care devotion, adrenaline honed skills and blind luck all told th a healthy mix of caution and awe Vey hit as a preamble to Mon fa mortals and to help those who wonder why we officially note and long remember living and dead veter ans each Nov 11 | knew snippets | of this story before Dodson had terminal cancer a column oi ears ago this month editor and publisher of one Tribune's \daho newspapers, | 1 that the father of an employee was co-pilot of the Flying Fortress in which Jerry was é waist gunner Mack Dodson wa 25 when he was co-piloting Star Eyes named after the the old pilot's favorite song) anc est member of the nine: to 1Oen an bomber crew. He as living in Twin ber of telephone clubs” in'Tokyo penetrate deeper into Nazi-controlled seco After spending the night atthe Russian base. the crew of Star yes and conti dItaly and Komania along the way vhe next day, they would F igner thing and accessories. The age of consent in Tokyo is 12 ind prostitution is illegal only if procured through a pimp @ Exote dancer Pamela Harr on complained in October that he was wrongfully fired by the Kat Tales club in Stuart, Fla, be use of a disability. Harrison wid that fellow dancers had com a health hazard be urgery forces Harrison to an ostomy bag tucked into I Gostring into: which body waste can flow duringher perfor An expert cited by The As dd Press said there is no ath hazard to others THE HEIGHT OF COMPOSURE In August. Reuter News Ser ice reported that Brian Howson s1, of Perth, Australia, repaired his single-engine planes landing rear, in flight, while dangling out he door at 4.000 feet with three engers holding his le @in September, Michael Pot kul, $4. won @ $400 000 malprac ard against surgeon Domi randy in Pittsburgh Brandy vad convinced Potkul that he {give him a nearly full head f hair by surgical (in six opera if grabbing the hairy bac lp and stretchingit over the haired top of his head Pot iffered such pain and de vression by the fifth operation hat he attempted suicide @ ln July in Japan, 44-year-old vy drowned while frolicking un sttended as his mother played Pa hinko, a pinball/slot-machine raze sweeping the country More 1 two dozen toddler deaths The parents of 4-year-old Sarah filed 4 $1.2 million lawsuit in New York City in Sep tember against the girls grand “one pm petitiy reen B The Pro dence Journal Bul tin reported in August on the environmental-regulation trou of Manuel and Ana Martins f Swansea, II their house t built on fill dirt in a wet lands, their septic tank cannot be natalled deep. In fact, it i largely above ground, covering their front yard in a mound of dirt 30 feet by 50 feet, rising feet high cateonly three: navigator Richard Leitch in California, radio operator Volcano continued into Editor By Steve Newman 4 5 ULa sins and don‘ do their prayers." eat ee but Mortiz’s group discovered the family lines of most males died out alter afew weeks The same fam Swedish Twister Wr Ajvare Scandinavian twister tended to survive in all in colonies, and thefer ales who took ripped through Mi southwest Swee en, Wear over ay queen came from these ing rootsoff buildings, Hip dominantlines ping cars and causing extensive arthquakes A powerful temblor cen EB tered beneath the Indian day party in 1994 The grandpar WestJavaProvince for four minutes just alter midnight on Noy. 7. Offi Cials said there were no casualties damage. Eyewitnesses said the from the shaking, other than the whirlwind nearly emptied a dam ed overhead, sucking up the wits of those awakened in. the ts Into the tornado’s column, night Farth movements werealso felt in Bi snd neighboring parts of In Royal Blood Lines ple’s Akita dog, Beeky Bear, bit nd deeply searred Sarah's nose and cheek during the gurl’s birth Ocean rocked jakarta and ents are heartsick at being sued by their own son, who not surpris: ingly is a lawyer, as is his wife @in July, a4 33-year-old woman was ar rested and charged with hitting her 1§-year-old son on the wrists with a meat cleaver after he broke the TV remote-control unit, And in July, police in Newark, NJ don West Province eastern Nusa Tenggara and southern Japan, Japan's Izu Islands and are mote part of northwest Colombia aid a woman pushed her 9 year old daughter through a depart Rain Prayers ment store window after learning Muslimsin the holy of Mecca and Medina v led in prayers for rain for that the girl had left the family’s $900 on a city bus. And in July police in Tunbridge Wells, Eng land. arrested a couple in their the de 20s who were lying on the ground Clerics told followers that one kingdom of Saudi Arabia. son the rains this season is outside a sports shop having sex in the middleof the day, with the woman using oneof their two kids forget to. obe rea @late in coming thefact that Me lens 1 tut anc awn and South Africa have dis covered that have royal blood lines just like the great families of Europe or Japan. Robin Moritz of the Technis che Universitat Berlin and Mike All sopp of the Plant Pre tion Re: search Institute in Stel enbosch, South Alrica, made the discovery while studying how the bees man: aged their royal succes: wns in four mate separate hives, Queen t with many of the male Va hive, lropical Storms SZ Tropical cyclone 078, the C) most powerful to. strike eastern India in 10. years tore through the state of Andtira Pradesh, killing hut dreds of people, destroying crops and lat tening tens of thousands of homes Super cyclone te nai J Bellamine as it moved across Philippi then gair strength over the south China Sea Laster without Bunnies Farmers hoping that no [du rabbits will be left across parts of New Zealand’s South Islandby next Easter haveapplied fur the use of the Rab bit calicivirus ¢ ase (RCD)to rid their fields of t e NON Native Pests. Theviru has been succ ulin dra matically reducing the number of fabbitsin Australia, and ni de ef fects of infections in oth have been observed there, The Roy al Forest and Bird Protection Society is strongly opposed to RCD in New the open waters of the Indian Zealand, saying a sudden drop in Ocean from the monitoring, juris the number of rabbits could cause predators like stoats and ferrets to diction of the Australian Bure, we on native species Meteorology, to that of the Meteo ison Sue Maturin said the Franceoffi in Reunion. ould put up to 18 bird, four Typhoon Dale buffeted Guam lizard, onebeetle, one grasshopper and other islands of the Mariana risk chain) while moving westward and 13 rareplant species at across the Pacific. Ernie drenched Tropical Storm the heart of Additional Sources: (I'S. 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In a lifetime percent make rooms without insulation more comforiable ‘The best answer se ms to be in creasing the solar reflectanc of the roof. More than a dozen ¢ in his lifetime used in most tanning beds, once considered “safe” Health ex perts now knowbetter TheSalt LakeTribune ake south Davis counties GnasSill Richard Higgins in Michigan, and ball parents because the elder cou Scotia) Harbor, his team found 50 fernale dog whelks with penises Recent Keasons for Killing including Paviot FAMILY VALUES purely Kussian refinement vir cockroach races, in which ima fi ing manias. age innocenceand assembled them into 4 deadly B-17 crew. She could lo- DIARY OF THE PLANET fourth week with an eruption that sent an ash cloud soaring to nearly five miles abovetheAlaskan Penin: sula, A freak lightnine strike that damaged a Coast Guard plane tly ing nearby may have been associat ed with the eruption O ported that the Russian govern ment is eracking down on gam tual-reality Monday Water melted by volcanic CHUCK SHEPHERD ducts and growing penises “of alarming lengths” A Canadian government biologist said in Sep tember 1996 that similar findings were reported in the country's At ave been altributed to parents *boession with the game Also in July The New York Times re rope, on Korea's frozenhills, or the paddies of Vietnam — always are big deals. Let all of us remember that beneath Ice dl Vatnajokull Glacier overflowed with @ torrent of sul furous black water and ice that shed bridges and flooded parts of the country’s vital ring road, The wollen Gigiukvis. River became filled with hundreds of icebergs that wept the bridges away. subse quent eruption sent clouds of smoke oF steam billowing 14,000 feet high About 1,300 villagers from around Central Java's Mount Mer api were evacuated from their homes the volcano spewed ash and toxic fumes into the air Volcanic activity trom Alaska’s almost concealing the house from passersby in Stone Mountain, Ga, Sorry, Jerry, the story stands Heroism, devotion and saerifice — be they atop BunkerHill, behind Gettysburg fences, in merchant ships upon the Atlantic, in skies over Eu- Eruptions NEWS OF THE WEIRD Kngstrand base in Sicily EARTHWEEK: A who and sex because of the seri “Tcan hear friend Jerry O'Brien, back in his skies, questioning the need or advisability of such a story, “It wasn't a big deal,” he would scoff. the same way they were whenthe Air take off for England, dropping bombs fellow bomber crews would head to a use mobile phones for privaey from parents and teachers Ac 15 money the girls can make to {ved their habits expensive de 4uthor Corps snatehed themfrom their teen. bombing Nazi territory cording to The Wall Street 4 nal perhaps 8 percent of school participate at 1 rast girl late: é a romplete, My dad's warstoryis incomplet of course, because only he could have toldit ‘That is why my article is most. ly a cautionarytale mates, scattered about the country in Reporter Joan O'Brien, with scrap book she usedto help nail down de tails of her father's WWI! exploits This clandestine arrangement allowed B-17 raids. originating in England, to and older) talk sex with junior vecasionally holes in it, On other missions, engines were knocked out. And uponalmost y landing, the fuel light was blinkO'Brien did not talk much about at 4 base near Mirgorad in Ukraine ¢ placed it onthe front presentedwith this proviso from the war experiences with his family, ei ther When hedied daughter Joan kept his Flying Cross. It wasn't until then that I realized how distinguished the Distinguished Flying Cross is,” she recalls 1 felt an obligation to find out how he earned it She sought out surviving crew wound to the navigator in which men (mostly middle-aged high and high school girls. brance. We ha tions, that Star Eyes returned from ing red. Just routine stuff The 96th Bomb Group also was part of 4 then-secret deal with the Soviet Union to land our fuel-starved B-17s Several news services reported in October on the growing num foneda story of war and remem- of the Sunday section, Page J-1 It is one mission with more than 100 bullet machine-gun fire from Messerschmidt Japanese ‘Call’ Girls Titillate Dirty Old Men of the o¢th Bomb Group, she fash- whenI asked himabout hairy situa: fighters Yet the crew's worst casualty 4 minor of the survivors entrusted with her and her pres nce at the 51st reunion bombing runs reflected great concern for our butts, said O'Brien Dodson matter-of-factly reported crew flew 35 missions throughskies was imer Smith in Kansas, O'Brien susp ts the rest are dead. e Through conversations with Smith, Higgins and Leitch, a scrapbook one played heroies Most of our conversation during do and bravery filled with fatal flak and murderous turret gunner did not go into much detail and down. My lisher of The Sa t Lake Tribune from 1983 until hi feath earl in 1994 The storyteller 1 O Brien his daugh : they had earned a Flying Cross. They brief resurrecting of this story got O'Brien and Dodson together be or the latter died Jerry would be gone 40 months later Besides the bra : on the Germans in France O'Brien and Dodsonnevertold me but nei two other aspects of their war adven tures intrigued me The Star Eyes J mentioned Jerry's B-17 experience { ther the two, nor, for that matter, any of the other crew members of Star Bye r had reunited today’s telling because one of the he ts Jerry O Brien, pub roes of thi tale ter and 4 Tribune feature writer a as Bees pte For those Tribune sub: seribers who do not have access to the Internet, a low-cost option ix available Tribune subscribers can obtain Internet access Have your Tribune account number (on your invoice) handy when signing up. 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